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  1. Prevalence estimates of nonordinary experiences depend on validity and measurement choices

    Article • Communications Psychology, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Everton Maraldi, Ann Taves

  2. Do People Think Abstractly Inside Cathedrals? The Role of Place Size and Religiosity on Construal Level

    Article • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, April 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  3. A conceptual typology of presence experiences and corresponding mechanisms

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  4. Reflections on a CSR manifesto from a CSR-adjacent point of view

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  5. What Counts as Religious/Spiritual Experience in the US and India?

    Article • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  6. The Response-Process-Evaluation Method: A New Approach to Survey-Item Validation

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Ann Taves

  7. Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies, By Richard Saville-Smith

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Religion, December 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ann Taves

  8. The Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences (INOE): Evidence of validity in the United States and India

    Article • PLOS One, July 2023, PLOS

    Ann Taves

  9. A feature-based approach to the comparative study of “nonordinary” experiences.

    Article • American Psychologist, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ann Taves

  10. Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 2022, Brill

    Ann Taves, F. LeRon Shults

  11. Worldview Analysis as a Tool for Conflict Resolution

    Article • Negotiation Journal, January 2022, The MIT Press

    Ann Taves

  12. Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Ann Taves

  13. From religious studies to worldview studies

    Article • Religion, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  14. Psychology, meaning making, and the study of worldviews: Beyond religion and non-religion.

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ann Taves

  15. The Power of the Paranormal (and Extraordinary)Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal. By Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+370.Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal...

    Article • History of Religions, November 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Ann Taves

  16. Parsing meaning and value in relation to experience

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  17. Special things as building blocks of religions

    Article • December 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Ann Taves

  18. Religions, meaning making, and basic needs

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  19. Brain—mind

    Article • Material Religion, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  20. Introduction

    Article • Religion, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  21. McNamara's cognitive model of self-transformation

    Article • Religion, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  22. Experience as site of contested meaning and value: The attributional dog and its special tail

    Article • Religion, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  23. No Field Is an Island: Fostering Collaboration between the Academic Study of Religion and the Sciences

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 2010, Brill

    Ann Taves

  24. REREADING <i>THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE</i> IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE

    Article • Zygon®, June 2009, Open Library of the Humanities

    Ann Taves

  25. BRIDGING SCIENCE AND RELIGION: “THE MORE” AND “THE LESS” IN WILLIAM JAMES AND OWEN FLANAGAN

    Article • Zygon®, March 2009, Open Library of the Humanities

    Ann Taves

  26. Channeled Apparitions: On Visions that Morph and Categories that Slip

    Article • Visual Resources, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  27. Ascription, attribution, and cognition in the study of experiences deemed religious

    Article • Religion, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  28. The Camp Meeting and the Paradoxes of Evangelical Protestant Ritual

    Article • August 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ann Taves

  29. Where (Fragmented) Selves Meet Cultures

    Article • Culture and Religion, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Ann Taves

  30. Detachment and Engagement in the Study of "Lived Experience"

    Article • Spiritus A Journal of Christian Spirituality, September 2003, Project Muse

    Ann Taves

  31. Knowing Through the Body: Dissociative Religious Experience in the African- and British-American Methodist Traditions

    Article • The Journal of Religion, April 1993, University of Chicago Press

    Ann Taves

  32. Mothers and Children and the Legacy of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Christianity

    Article • The Journal of Religion, April 1987, University of Chicago Press

    Ann Taves

  33. Spiritual Purity and Sexual Shame: Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs

    Article • Church History, March 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Ann Taves

  34. Context and Meaning: Roman Catholic Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America

    Article • Church History, December 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Ann Taves